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I'm afraid that's not the way it works. The use of multiple urls is described in Sun's ldap tutorial:

Instead of just one URL, you can also supply a space-separated list of URLs. In this case, the LDAP provider will attempt to use each URL in turn until it is able to create a successful connection. The LDAP provider will then set the Context.PROVIDER_URL property to the successful URL, so that the application can determine which URL is being used.

It's mostly useful for ensuring access to an LDAP server when you have a number of mirrored servers and don't care which one you connect to.